Rhonda J. Broussard (she/her/elle) is an author, entrepreneur, and futurist. As the Founder & CEO of Beloved Community and Awa by Beloved, PBC, Rhonda works to create sustainable paths to regional racial and economic equity. Her vision for Beloved Community is informed by her leadership in education and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s goal “to create a beloved community” that would “require a qualitative change in our souls as well as a quantitative change in our lives.”


Rhonda has been a change-agent in social justice advocacy throughout her career. Previously, she founded a network of language immersion and International Baccalaureate world authorized schools, was a National Board Certified Teacher and taught in public schools in drop-out recovery, college access, working class, immigrant, and affluent school communities. She has served on the board of New Orleans African American Museum, EdNavigator, Missouri’s Charter Public School Association, PROMO - Missouri's Statewide LGBTQ Advocacy Organization, Agile Learning Center of New Orleans, and Washington University in St. Louis YMCA-YWCA.


Rhonda is steadfast in her commitment to community engagement and leadership. Rhonda has been recognized as a Chevalier of the Ordre des Palmes académiques by the French Ministry of Culture, is a Highland Leader, a Tulane Mellon Fellow for Community Engaged Research, a Pahara-Aspen Fellow and an Eisenhower Fellow. She currently serves as a Director of Diverse Charter Schools Coalition and Generation Hope. Rhonda has earned a Bachelor of Arts in French and Secondary Education from Washington University in St. Louis, a Masters of Arts in French Studies from The Institute of French Studies at New York University, and has studied in Cameroon, Martinique, Finland, New Zealand and metropolitan France. Rhonda is the author of One Good Question: How Countries Prepare Youth to Lead. You can find Rhonda, her wife Kim, and her bilingual family living in Bulbancha also known as New Orleans, Louisiana where she studies, performs, and teaches dances from the African diaspora.